Cishan culture red pottery three-legged bowl

[Cishan culture red pottery tripod bowl]

red pottery tripod bowl, Neolithic Cishan culture, height 8.1 cm, caliber 21.3 cm, foot distance 15 cm
The bowl is open, with a round (hu á n ring) bottom and three legs underneath. Clay red pottery. The method of making this bowl is relatively primitive. It is formed by the method of clay bar and kneading. The shape of the bowl is irregular and the wall is uneven. This three-legged bowl is a typical utensil in Cishan culture pottery
The clay bar and tray method is one of the oldest pottery making methods. The process of rubbing the clay used to make pottery into thin strips, and then building the strips into the wall from the bottom of the pottery to the mouth of the pottery in turn, and then smoothing and bonding the gaps with mud. In order to make the wall uniform and solid, people will further hold ceramic pads or pebbles in the vessel against the vessel wall with one hand, and beat it with a ceramic bat outside the vessel with the other hand, and then burn it in the kiln. Nevertheless, irregular shape and uneven wall are still the biggest characteristics of the clay bar dish method.

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